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Mama Bear
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This shortbread is awesome... thanks to my hubby for sharing it.
Apparently this shortbread freezes well, but personally I haven't seen it last long enough...
<B>Melt In Your Mouth Shortbread</B>
1 Lb butter - creamed
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/8 cup icing sugar
4 cups flour (gradual, in 2 steps)
Cream butter with electric mixer, add vanilla. Slowly add icing sugar.
Gradually blend in flour until it forms a stiff dough.
Turn dough out onto a floured surface, and continue kneading flour into dough <B>only*</B> until it starts to crack. (when you make a ball and push on it, cracks appear around the edges). You likely won't need the whole 4 cups of flour. It depends on humidity levels, dryness of flour, etc.
Roll to 1/4 inch thickness, use cookie cutter. Decorate if desired.
Bake on cookie sheet, at 310, until just starting to turn light golden brown around the edges (about 25 min.)
<B>*</B> Too much flour = dry and tasteless
<B>*</B> Not enough flour = flat and greasy
<B>Variations:</B>
1) Make small balls from the prepared dough, roll in egg, roll through crushed walnuts, and bake.
2) May add small pieces of cherry or nuts to the dough before baking.
Apparently this shortbread freezes well, but personally I haven't seen it last long enough...
<B>Melt In Your Mouth Shortbread</B>
1 Lb butter - creamed
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/8 cup icing sugar
4 cups flour (gradual, in 2 steps)
Cream butter with electric mixer, add vanilla. Slowly add icing sugar.
Gradually blend in flour until it forms a stiff dough.
Turn dough out onto a floured surface, and continue kneading flour into dough <B>only*</B> until it starts to crack. (when you make a ball and push on it, cracks appear around the edges). You likely won't need the whole 4 cups of flour. It depends on humidity levels, dryness of flour, etc.
Roll to 1/4 inch thickness, use cookie cutter. Decorate if desired.
Bake on cookie sheet, at 310, until just starting to turn light golden brown around the edges (about 25 min.)
<B>*</B> Too much flour = dry and tasteless
<B>*</B> Not enough flour = flat and greasy
<B>Variations:</B>
1) Make small balls from the prepared dough, roll in egg, roll through crushed walnuts, and bake.
2) May add small pieces of cherry or nuts to the dough before baking.
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